Peter Yearsley

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Poetry

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Lines

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Lines by Percy Bysshe Shelley. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 13th, 2009.

Christian Clark and 13 more 20 minutes

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Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

General Fiction

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Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz: Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People

Sketches by Boz is a collection of short pieces published by Charles Dickens in 1836 accompanied by illustrations by George Cruikshank. It consists of 56 passages divided into four sections: «Our Parish», «Scenes»,...

David Barnes and 22 more 21 hours 57 minutes

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Tales of a Wayside Inn

Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. «Tales» includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles. (Summary by...

Peter Yearsley 2 hours 44 minutes

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Poetry

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Rupert Brooke - Soldier

LibriVox volunteers bring you 20 recordings of The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. This poem was written, as the concluding part of a series of sonnets, on the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. Brooke, himself,...

Alan Davis Drake and 19 more 26 minutes

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Nature

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Frederick Boyle - About Orchids, a Chat

This is not a manual of instruction for orchid growers; though there are many hints on cultivation, and a few paragraphs on how to hybridize. The author is just an enthusiastic amateur orchid lover. He takes the...

Peter Yearsley 6 hours

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Biography & Autobiography

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G. S. Street - Ghosts of Piccadilly

Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived in Piccadilly (in London, England)… and of some of the buildings, now long...

Peter Yearsley 5 hours 48 minutes

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Business & Economics

Jack London - People of the Abyss

Jack London lived for a time within the grim and grimy world of the East End of London, where half a million people scraped together hardly enough on which to survive. Even if they were able to work, they were paid...

Peter Yearsley 6 hours 28 minutes

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Poetry

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Song of Hiawatha

I sing the Song of Hiawatha, Brave of heart and strong of arm. Daughter's son of old Nokomis, Fathered by the harsh West Wind. With its regular, beating rhythm, the Song of Hiawatha has often been...

Peter Yearsley 3 hours 56 minutes

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Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

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Aesop - Celebration of Dialects and Accents, Vol 1.

A celebration of all the wonderful dialects and accents found within the Librivox community! The goal being to record a 'phonetically relevant' text by as many volunteers as possible, and make this dialect/accent...

Julie VW and 34 more 36 minutes

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Charles McRae - Fathers of Biology

An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science...

Availle and 4 more 1 hour 46 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Coffee Break Collection 001 - Humor

This is a collection of short (15 minute or less readings) stories suitable for a coffee break at work or a short commuter ride. Emphasis for this collection is Humor in various genres — fiction and non-fiction....

Sally Ann Cook and 15 more 2 hours 51 minutes Coffee Break Collections

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Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

Children's Fiction

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Hans Christian Andersen - Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tale Collection

These are 25 fairy tales written by Hans Christian Andersen — A collection of something for everyone — the very popular stories, the less well-known stories and favorites, that both children and grownups can enjoy....

Lucy Perry and 15 more 4 hours 39 minutes

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New

Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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